Security restrictions bypass in IBM Algo One Core - CVE-2017-5648

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Security restrictions bypass in IBM Algo One Core - CVE-2017-5648

Published: May 24, 2017 / Updated: November 20, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6675
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5648
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to the failure to use the appropriate facade object by certain application listener calls. A remote attacker can access and modify arbitrary data.

Affected software

IBM Algo One Core
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
Apache Tomcat
tomcat7 (Debian package)
tomcat8 (Debian package)
tomcat
Storage Copy Data Management
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance

How to mitigate CVE-2017-5648

Install update from vendor's website.

tomcat7 (Debian package) - update to 7.0.56-3+deb8u10
tomcat8 (Debian package) - update to 8.0.14-1+deb8u9
Storage Copy Data Management - update to 2.2.26.0
tomcat - update to 7.0.77-1.el6
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance - addressed in versions 13.0.0.2.29, 13.1.0.2.20

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